Default & Doctrine: Full Contents of Issue One

Front Matter

• Default & Doctrine — Issue One — Cover
• The Code That Built a Bench — Editor’s Note
• IBC by the Numbers — The statistical portrait

Part I — How the Machine Actually Works

• How a CIRP Actually Works — Inside the Sintex-BAPL resolution
• The CIRP Funnel That Narrows Hard — From 6,210 admissions to 1,681 plans
• Two Doors, Two Outcomes — Section 7 vs Section 9

Feature I

• The Saga That Wouldn’t Settle — Kalyani Transco v. Bhushan Power and Steel Ltd.

Part II — The Forums That Decide

• The Twenty-Five Cases the Rest of IBC Sits On — The doctrinal spine
• The Supreme Court’s IBC Bookshelf — 643 orders, eight years
• The Appellate Filter Between NCLT and Supreme Court — NCLAT’s 4,327 appeals
• Where the IBC Actually Lives — NCLT’s 18,971 orders, sixteen benches

Feature II

• The Day Personal Guarantors Came Onshore — Lalit Kumar Jain v. Union of India

Part III — What the Code Does to People

• The Personal Guarantor Wave That Hit in 2022 — From 4 cases to 1,492
• The Promoter Bar That Reshaped Resolution — Section 29A
• When Resolution Fails: The Liquidation Files — Section 53 waterfall
• Policing the Profession — IBBI’s Disciplinary Committee
• The Frameworks the IBC Built but Barely Uses — Pre-pack, group, cross-border, avoidance

Feature III

• The Court Case That Shut BYJU’s Escape Hatch — GLAS Trust v. BYJU Raveendran